For purchasers subject to Book IV, project management contracts that meet a need for an amount equal to or greater than the formal procedure thresholds are negotiated, pursuant to article R. 2122-6, with the winner or winners of a restricted competition organised under the conditions of articles R. 2162-15 to R. 2162-21.
However, the purchaser is not obliged to organise a competition for the award of a project management contract:
1° Relating to the re-use or rehabilitation of existing works or to the implementation of an urban or landscape project;
2° Relating to works carried out for the purposes of research, testing or experimentation;
3° Relating to infrastructure works
4° Which does not entrust any design task to the contractor.
5° Relating to building works carried out by low-income housing organisations mentioned in article L. 411-2 of the Code de la construction et de l’habitation, semi-public companies mentioned in article L. 481-1 of the same code for their approved activity as well as the regional centres for university and school works defined in article L. 822-3 du code de l’éducation.